TAG Heuer Unveils Its $1,500 Android Wear-Based Smartwatch That Is Available Today In NYC

Recognized for its mechanical watches, TAG Heuer introduced the launch of its first-ever smartwatch that retails for $ 1,500. The smartwatch is on the market beginning in the present day in New York Metropolis. of 2(Photograph : TAG Heuer)

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Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer introduced the launch of its first-ever smartwatch made in partnership with Intel and Google at a press convention in New York on Monday, Nov. 9.

"It isn't sufficient to have custom as a result of custom connects you to yesterday, however we have to be related to tomorrow," TAG Heuer CEO Jean-Claude Biver stated. "Today is the wedding of Watch Valley and the Silicon Valley, the wedding of American and Switzerland. It is a political, economical, industrial marriage."

Referred to as the TAG Heuer Related, the Android Put on-based mostly smartwatch retails for $ 1,500 and have become out there beginning at 12 p.m. in New York Metropolis.

Biver revealed that the aim was to make it not "appear to be a related watch," to distinguish it from different smartwatches just like the Apple Watch. So it's modeled after the basic mechanical Carrera mannequin, however nonetheless outfitted with smart functionalities that permit customers to obtain notifications proper from their wrist.

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The Related Watch is 46.2 mm throughout and 12.8 mm thick and is product of titanium, making it light-weight, and features a touch screen that's coated in sapphire crystal, giving it a luxurious really feel.

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The smartwatch is powered by Intel processors and runs on Google's Android Put on which makes use of Bluetooth know-how and Wi-Fi to enable the consumer to view their emails, texts, and visitors information from the watch face, together with a microphone for voice instructions.

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TAG additionally developed its personal apps for Related, which incorporates an alarm and stopwatch, and the watch has 4 GB of storage obtainable. There isn't any coronary heart price sensor or GPS within the watch, however it could monitor the consumer's steps.

The Related will give customers as much as 30 hours of battery life, and comes with a USB charging cradle.

The corporate developed three totally different watch faces for its first-ever smartwatch, which embrace a chronograph, a 3-hand dial, and a world time face choices. The watches include six totally different-coloured rubber straps with a titanium buckle for additional personalization.

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To additional make the Related an everlasting buy, the corporate additionally introduced it's "giving delivery to eternity in a field." Shoppers who do not need to upgrade it to the subsequent-era mannequin can commerce within the smartwatch after their 2-yr contract is up, and TAG Heuer will rework the Join right into a mechanical watch.

"We're the one model the place you should purchase a related watch and switch it to everlasting," Biver.

Nevertheless, to hook up with eternity, shoppers should hand over a further $ 1,500.

TAG Heuer's Related smartwatch is accessible right now at TAG's New York Metropolis boutique for $ 1,500. The corporate will launch the Related in 19 of its retail companions throughout the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 10, adopted by a world launch subsequent month.